Citations:sensawunda

Noun: "(fandom slang, dated) sense of wonder, with respect to science fiction"

 * 1978, Larry Niven, "Other Voices, Other Voices, Other Voices, Other", Science Fiction Review, Number 25, May 1978, page 53:
 * Gerrold's skimpy three-paragraph intro is a glorification of the sensawunda, and reads with the anonymous hyperbole of a blurb.
 * 1978, Orson Scott Card, Kalki review, Science Fiction Review, Number 28, November-December 1978, page 33:
 * How does a non-science fiction writer write science fiction? We had a taste with John Hersey's WHITE LOTUS and MY PETITION FOR MORE SPACE and discovered that future visions could be presented with such reality and simplicity that our sensawunda could be thrown away and we could discover, instead, deep and beautiful characters.
 * 1982, Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, Volume 102, page 161:
 * For all the sensawunda, it's as unlikely as a one-legged horse.
 * 1986, Foundation, Issues 37-44, page 94:
 * Where is the originality, the sparkle, the sensawunda, the frisson of fear that I used to find in SF, Fantasy and Horror stories?
 * 1989, Foundation, Issues 47-53, page 33:
 * in order to be able to make the pilgrimage to Mecca, the Sultan of Alpha Centauri engineers a breath-taking re-siting of the entire solar system — sensawunda indeed!
 * 1996, Paul Kincaid, "Books of the Year - 1995", Vector, Number 188, August 1996, page 10:
 * While for Andy Mills, Red Dust by Paul K. McAuley "brings the sensawunda back to Mars."
 * 1997, Bob Devney, "Cinephile", Proper Boskonian, Number 40, April 1997, page 6:
 * And the film's ending manages some real grandeur, with a pure science fictional sensawunda feel.
 * 1999, Gary Wilkinson, Heaven's Reach review, Vector, Number 207, September/October 1999, page 21:
 * In this one Brin thinks big and the sensawunda gets turned up to eleven. For instance instead of puny ordinary Dyson spheres, Brin gives us fractal Dyson spheres to maximise the surface area for their trillions of inhabitants.
 * 2004, Cinefantastique, Volume 36, page 64:
 * The book is ambitiously set in a future a billion or more years hence but, in the best “sensawunda" tradition, we have an acceptably plausible base from which to discover a new universe.
 * 2005, Alison Scott, "What's Sensawunda, Mummy?", Interaction Progress Report 1 (2005), page iv:
 * The unquenchable sensawunda of journeys to other planets formed the backdrop to my childhood.